Faith in Action Sunday

Bridge Church began meeting weekly for worship on August 16th, at our local YMCA. This Sunday we’ll do something a little crazy. We’re moving our worship gathering to a local trailer park where we’ll rebuild a porch for an elderly gentleman, throw a block party for kids that will include a gospel centered lesson, have [...]

Proud Member of the Junky Car Club

If my dad had an iconic symbol (i.e. Lincoln’s hat, Churchill’s cigar, etc.) it would have been the beat up, worn out, broke down truck that he had to work on for an hour before work everyday. He constantly drove clunkers and suffered greatly when he finally got to the point in his life that [...]

Standing Where It’s Already Burned

One of the favorite titles I’ve held in my life (behind “Dad” of course) is Volunteer Fireman. I was honored to volunteer with one of St. Tammany Parish’s finest Volunteer Fire Departments for a number of years and still like to provide spiritual care for our first responders as a Volunteer Chaplain. One night I [...]

I know what God says, BUT…

I know what God says, BUT…

“my situation is different.”
“that will never happen to me.”
“everyone else does it.”
“that was a long time ago.”
“they deserve it.”
“god understands my needs.”
“who really does that anyway?”
“that’s just not possible for me.”
“I’ll get around to that one day.”

When you disobey God it means there is a gap between where you are [...]

Ages Old Falsehoods That Are Still False

In the book of 1 John, one of Jesus’ closes associates debunks a view of Christianity that threatened to undermine the spread of the life-changing message about Jesus Christ. The false teaching was called Gnosticism (more here). It has crept back into our belief systems in the modern era through academia, but also subtly into [...]

It Makes A Difference When Things Are Real

Our three year old son, Hudson, is a swordsman. His favorite target for destruction is, of course, ME. The plastic and nerf versions of the sword have yet to inflict much bodily harm, but a few weeks ago that almost changed. We were browsing in one of my favorite Hardware/Army Surplus stores in our area, [...]